Antimicrobial Carvacrol-Containing Polypropylene Films: Composition, Structure and Function.

ABSTRACT: Significant research has been directed toward the incorporation of bioactive plant extracts or essential oils (EOs) into polymers to endow the latter with antimicrobial functionality. EOs offer a unique combination of having broad antimicrobial activity from a natural source, generally recognized as safe (GRAS) recognition in the US, and a volatile nature. However, their volatility also presents a major challenge in their incorporation into polymers by conventional high-temperature-processing techniques. Herein, antimicrobial polypropylene (PP) cast films were produced by incorporating carvacrol (a model EO) or carvacrol, loaded into halloysite nanotubes (HNTs), via melt compounding. We studied the composition-structure-property relationships in these systems, focusing on the effect of car

SUBMITTER: Krepker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6415180 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature